Devil's Kriek
Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom

2018 vintage, 10.3%abv from a 375mL bottle. A clean pour, light acidity on the nose, and a duel between a fairly modest cherry tartness and a fairly modest funk. I appreciate the subtlety which otherwise betrays no other hint of the age of this bottle. Light straw, pineapple and Granny smith.

 

Strong cherry aroma, pleasant red color, has a very distinct fermented funk flavor that maybe other people like, but it's not for me. Very strong unpleasant alcohol aftertaste.

great strong ale with lot of cherry after taste

2018 on draft in 2022
Look - dark cherry red and clear
Smell - tart dark cherry slight grain
Taste - most cherry possibly strawberry slightly hard
Feel - medium body with very light carb
Overall really tasty

 

2017 Version

Appearance: Pours a slightly hazy auburn color with a one finger head that fizzles away to a ringlet; spots of lacing

Smell: A lot of funk and sweet Bing cherry tones with a tart aspect present, as well

Taste: Sweet Bing cherry forward with the tart side quickly moving to the fore; funky and oaky, through the middle and while the tart tones peak, after the swallow, there is a bit of a jammy character in the finish

Mouthfeel: Medium body with low to moderate carbonation

Overall: More fruity and tart than the Tahoma but the jammy element in the finish is too assertive

Thanks, JohnGalt1, for the opportunity

 

2013 version bottled 7/9/14. Held up pretty well. Has a great red/raspberry color to it. The cherry and raspberry have dissipated quite a bit but still there and quite tasty. Still fizzy and tasty to put down. This was a 9.3 ABV

2016 vintage.

This one pours a slightly murky reddish-amber color, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.

This smells quite sour, with deep dark cherry, prickly funk, lemon rind, and bitter funk.

This is pretty intense, but works well for me. It's very, very sour, with a highly concentrated and intense cherry character, along with a prickly and and almost dirty funk to it. This would definitely be good to share with some one else - a solo dome might be a bit much.

This is light bodied, crisp, and with a big lingering acidity on the back end of each sip.

This brewery's best beers are easily their wild ales. This is certainly worth a try.

This is the 2016 edition, 9.2%. Lovely reddish amber color, but not much foam in the Kasteel chalice. There's a zingy and fizzy mouthfeel. Aroma is woody with a bit of fermenting apples. So many cherries and so little fruit flavor. Quite astringent in the finish, like blackberry seeds and stems. I don't get any sensation of alcohol, despite the claimed high ABV.

Quite acidic but not too much into the vinegar side. The cherries, though, are mostly lost in the tart funk and bitter yeastiness. While it's more sour than a real Belgian Kriek, or Flanders Red, it's not overwhelmed with lactic acid. From the 375 ml bottle purchased at Elizabeth Station in Bellingham.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cloudy rust color,medium carbonation. Aroma is all cherries first followed by an acidic sweet almost champagne smell. Taste is very similar,just more tart and sour but not like biting into a lemon tart. At times the cherries came off a bit artifical in taste and aroma but I just think that I've never had a lambic where the cherry addition was so strong and easily identified. A great dessert beer that I'm anxious to try again. It's in a league of its own so it took a while to get used to this compared to so many other spurs I've had